Recently Britney Spears has decided to take a much needed break ffrom her career to focus on her new marriage (It's lasted longer than 72 hours!) and starting a family. Well done. Really what Britney has done is taken a brief hiatus because she was badly overexposed and everything she did seemed trashy and a pathetic cry for help to the public. We can learn a lot from that Britney. She has written on her website that one of the reasons why she was so overexposed and made some bad choices was because she had people around her- her publicist, her manager, her mom and dad- that pushed her to focus on her career and told her what to do. Without that opposition, that grounding force, we got Britney the teenage temptress, a mixing of school girl innocence and lusty harlot that probably sent many middle aged men into premature ejaculation. Once she became an adult it was time to party and that meant sex, drugs, and bad business decisions. My point you ask?
Look at our government. W. has surrounded himself with yes people or people that will make the decisions for him. Bush forced Colin Powell out and now he has no one to tell him pre-emptive invasion is a bad idea. No one to tell him the pending wars with Iran and North Korea will probably not work out so well. No one to tell him that Social Security exists as a safety net so that old people are not littering the streets, living out of cardboard boxes and talking about the good old days when they had medicare and furniture covered in plastic. No one to tell him that you can only ignore the environment for so long before the polar ice caps melt and we are living in a Water World using dirt and "hydro" as currency. (Yes, I watched Waterworld with Kevin Costner last night, call me crazy but I like that movie.)
There is no one to tell him that if you bankrupt the government by increasing the deficit, you are setting America up. Up for what? Well China and Japan own one third of our debt, what if they called it in? What if they imposed sanctions on us? When was the last time we built our own Nintendo Game Boys? America has over 7 trillion dollars in debt, that is more than ALL of the third world countries. Pretty bad, huh? You think that other nations are going to go around asking for our debts to be erased and forgiven the way we just did for Iraq? And should Iraq have their debts erased if they have the potential to make all of that money from the oil fields? What about Saddam's money? did we get it and can we use it? I guess we know the answers to all of those questions. The Iraqi people are never going to see a dime of the oil money and the reason W. wants their debts erased so bad is so that all income generated will be profit in his pocket. Where does that leave America? And if our dollar falls, if the government goes bankrupt, where does that leave the rest of the world that relies on our financial success?
Maybe we need to learn from Britney, and take some time off from all of this warmongering and profiteering and take care of our homelife for now. We are overexposed, and anything we do or is done to us will face the ridicule and criticism of the rest of the world. But hey-
"We don't need permission to make our own decisions, that's our prerogative..."

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